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Video Game 錄像遊戲
Video Game 錄像遊戲
Video Game 錄像遊戲

Video Game錄像遊戲

Cantonese
Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
1986
duration /
12'35

A game that expects only passive listening from the players is called ‘Dialogue’. Video Game penetrates the facade of the so-called dialogue and foregrounds the power inequality between the interlocutors. It can be seen as a metaphor of the futility of Hong Kong striving to voice its opinion in the 1997 handover negotiation.

Note:
This is included in a VHS collection of films and videos by Danny Yung, entitled Question,Problem (1977-1996). Produced by Videotage in late 1990s.

命名為「對話」的遊戲,卻只能聽從對方發號施令,而且從一開始就鐵定要輸。權力懸殊,溝通只是徒勞。作品隱然折射香港回歸前夕,在談判桌上爭一席之難,港人自身的聲音終被中英雙方壓下。時至今日,這種以柔懷對話作包裝的壓制依然籠罩香港。

about the artist /

Danny Yung is a founding member and co-artistic director of Zuni Icosahedron, a highly esteemed experimental theater in Hong Kong. Over the past 40 years, after having graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in architecture and from Columbia University in urban design, Yung has been deeply involved in diverse artistic fields, including theatre, cartoon, film, video, and visual and installation art.
Yung is the recipient of the following prizes and awards: the Hong Kong Arts Development Award 2015 for Artist of the Year (Drama); The Fukuoka Prize – Arts and Culture Prize (2014); The Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of Yung’s contributions towards the arts and the cultural exchange between Germany and Hong Kong (2009); The Music Theatre NOW Award presented by the UNESCO’s International Theatre Institute for his theater work “Tears of Barren Hill”.

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